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"It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs."
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
"Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit."
"Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from."
"I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality."
"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.""
"Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in."
"Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY."
"Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?"
"Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers."
"Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not."
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."
"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."
"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."
"We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives."
"The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be.""
"To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best."
"She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system."
